Hackathons: Driving Innovation, Engagement, and Solutions

Team up with tech visionaries and creative minds to co-create and craft transformative solutions for your challenges

Why Do You Need a Hackathon?

Hackathons bring fresh ideas to your organisation, motivate the team, attract new talent and strengthen your image as an innovation leader. They offer the chance to explore new AI tools and the potential of machine learning and automation, while enabling rapid prototyping in a short time.

Participants gain hands-on experience with new technologies and build valuable connections with peers and industry experts.

Build your hackathon with N3XTCODER: a fast-paced, collaborative event where diverse teams race against the clock to leverage AI to solve real-world challenges.

Rapid prototyping of AI solutions through structured hackathons with clear goals and defined problem statements.
Focus on creativity, teamwork, and learning through ideation, UX design, data analysis, and development.
Bring developers, designers, analysts, and experts to co-create with digital professionals from our network.

N3XTCODER offers 3 hackathon formats

1-day Hackathon

A one-day workshop to tackle internal challenges using agile methodologies.
Interdisciplinary teams work with guidance from N3XTCODER experts.
Outcome: practical, AI-driven solutions ready for your team to advance.

Weekend Hackathon (48h)

A 48-hour event combining internal staff with external innovators.
N3XTCODER curates cutting-edge ideas tailored to your organisation’s needs.
Teams co-create prototypes while learning new tools and approaches.

6-12 Week Programme

A multi-week programme with multiple partners addressing complex challenges.
Dedicated teams receive training and co-develop AI prototypes with your experts.
Enables deep knowledge exchange and implementation-ready outcomes.

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Some outcomes of our hackathons

Ecolityq

Ecolytiq enables banks and financial institutions to offer their customers environmental footprinting as well as personalized impact offsetting and ESG investments.

CosmoCare

Focuses on monitoring forced migratory flows to improve resource allocation in refugee camps, enhancing migrant health. Utilizing data from satellites like Copernicus Sentinel-1, the team predicts migration caused by natural disasters or civil conflicts. Their innovative approach helps in preparing for extreme weather conditions, reducing disease outbreak risks, and optimizing resource management in humanitarian contexts.

Reclaim Tiktok

An inspirational AI solution to fight fake information Reclaim Tiktok is levelling the playing field of political communication on TikTok for democratic organisations by using AI-enhanced Analytics and by gaining insights into the success of right-wing extremists on TikTok.

Our Impact

+25

Hackathons since 2016

+10.000

Participants in all our events

+200

Experts collaborating in our hackathons

Partners and clients we’ve supported with hackathonns

At Visa, innovation is one of our core drivers. That’s why we initiated the FinTech4Impact ProductHack together with N3XTCODER...Together we quickly generated valuable insights into the field of sustainable FinTech and identified highly relevant solutions for us and our clients.

Ute König-Stemmler

Head of Business Development Central Europe - Visa

Innovate by Doing— this approach is like a turbo boost for the first step towards innovation! Especially the hackathons bring together diverse minds, sparking fresh ideas, improving collaboration, and accelerating problem-solving. We at Berlin Recycling haven’t just got great innovative ideas tested but also a real cultural impact of this open-innovation-format. Wanna get ready to innovate and thrive out of the box? Go and innovate by doing with the NC-Team!

Alexander Balas

Head of Strategy, Digitalization, Development | Berlin Recycling GmbH

The Process

Clear structure, proven process and our full services approach ensure successful project execution and benefit maximisation.

Kick-off workshop

💎 We help you identify the most relevant topics based on your strategy and interests. 💎 Together, we set clear objectives for the process. 💎 At this stage, you’ll involve your team leaders in a creative session to discover and define the hackathon you need.

Customize format & create story

💎 We customize the format to suit your individual needs and circumstances. 💎 We help you create the story, communication strategy, and content. 💎 You receive fully developed challenges for the teams to work on.

Identify, select ventures and participants

💎 We identify and select the most promising ideas, AI technology and solutions for open hackathons, or support you in creating teams for internal ones. 💎 We invite key employees, external domain and sector experts and enthusiasts sourced through the N3XTCODER Network. 💎 We propose an expert jury (composed of both internal and external members) for project evaluation.

Hackathon day: insights and collaboration

💎 Teams work on defined objectives, gain insights, and develop prototypes, collaborations,and concepts over one to three days. 💎 The jury selects the most attractive outcomes for further collaboration. 💎 N3XTCODER facilitates the entire process and coordinates everyone involved at every stage.

From prototype to product

💎 Together, we collect and evaluate the results. We continue to actively engage with you and build your innovation ecosystem. 💎 We help you implement and scale the solutions and outcomes for a new future for your organization. 💎 Our experts work with you to evaluate the results and establish a joint working process.

N3XTCODER has organised 25+ Hackathons

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Explore Our Previous Hackathons:

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Connecting the Arctic

In November 2021, we brought the 2nd pan-European CASSINI hackathon to Berlin, Germany. Partially funded by the European Commission and co-organized with the dedicated CASSINI Hackathons team, we invited digital professionals from Germany and beyond to Spielfeld Digital Hub. Together we leveraged European space data to create digital solutions preserving nature – in collaboration with WWF Germany and LT&C.

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re:think Circular Economy – The AI Innovation Programme

With our partners BSR and Berlin Recycling, we support and accelerate projects and early-stage startups across Europe pioneering AI use in circular economy applications. We worked on three key challenges: Incentives & Behaviour Change, Collection & Classification of Waste, Repair, Refurbish

The 6th CASSINI Hackathon in Munich

Harnessing EU open-source earth observation satellite data for humanitarian aid and international development. Hosted at the Deutsches Museum, the event united over 80 professionals across seven teams, all committed to creating impactful digital tools for good causes.

Why N3XTCODER is the leading hackathon agency in Germany

We at N3XTCODER have crafted digital solutions for global challenges with top partners across tech, civil society, and the public sector for over 8 years. Throughout our journey, we have developed strong partnerships in technology, social innovation and science research, to build a diverse global network of changemakers. Our mission: Tech with purpose, tech for good.